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Old 08-15-2005, 07:13 AM
PairTheBoard PairTheBoard is offline
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Default Re: One of the Basic Questions of Philosophy?

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It seems like everybody is not exactly getting my question. Rephrased. How important is it to be right? What is worth giving up to be right?

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I still don't understand the question. Maybe an example of what you're getting at would help. Do you know what's "right"? Are you sacrificing something in search for what's right? Have you discovered you were wrong and must give up what you were wrong about because of what you now know it right? Is someone else telling you you are wrong and implying you should give up what they say is wrong to embrace what they say is right? If you come to know something is right how can you not give up that which you now know is wrong? Are you unsure whether the new right thing you've learned really makes the old not right thing obsolete? Do you suspect the old wrong thing you used to think was right still has some right in it that the new right thing does not contradict? Or is this topic just an excuse for Sklansky to one more time tell us what he thinks is right and claim the only reason we don't accept it is because we think it advantageous to hold on to what he has now shown us to be wrong?

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